I like to pay attention to the temp gauge on this old Nellie we call Earth. The water pump, fan belt and radiator all affect the weather we enjoy (endure?). And the great winds aloft can sometimes steer things your way, or away from you. Since my livelihood is outdoors, I keep an eye on things.
According to the "folks that might know best" the Pacific El Nino is persistently developing.
For field data shown as a pretty neat gif:
My feelings?
Get your trucks properly ready for winter. Keep the mud-boots handy and maybe a snow shovel close by. A wonderful autumn may lead to some dreary winter days. Buy a few extra cans for the pantry next time you're at the A&P. |-)
I agree. I have heard from several people that they are expecting a hard winter. I will be prepping the generator here in a few weeks. We generally don't get snow here. For some reason, we are more prone to get ice.
I will also make sure I have a few extra bottles of propane for cooking on the grill or outside cooker.
Maybe I'll get a chance to catch up on reading some of these older survey texts I have been buying on ebay the past year or so.
I have been watching this all summer. We in Utah are in the third year of drought. We didn't even irrigate the farm this year because very little water. It doesn't look like this El Nino is a very strong one but any increase in precip around here would be good. I'd love to be dealing with 3-4 feet of snow in February. If we have another year of very dry conditions drinking water might become a problem next summer.
Interesting topic. Here in this mornings paper was a big article on the pending El Nino winter. In NW AZ they are predicting a warmer & wetter winter, which I suppose is good for the desert. (except it brings the damn snakes out early and just as hungry). Don't mind those 70 deg rains, it's with windy 40 deg ones I don't like (I'm at about 3,800 ft & elevation is everything when it comes to weather around here).
Back in MI we loved El Nino. Nice warm, balmy, sorta overcast days in the 50's from Jan through Feb. We'd always go find a golf course and sneak on. Some even opened, or went with the "honor system" and had a cash box by the club house for "donations". Never leave a divot and everything is a 2 putt, or just stay OFF the greens. One course even had "winter greens" where they cut the grass real short in late fall next to the real green, and stick a flag in the middle with no hole. Auto 2 putt. The real greens were fenced off.
Hmm... Guess I'll have to break out the sweatshirt.:snarky:
Down here we have been blessed with a rainy year. Not enough to flood any one out but just regular enough to help break our drought. A dozen more years of this may recharge our aquifers. Then some of our dried up lakes will return.
We have not had a hurricane for 9 years so all my weather prediction models are just flat busted.
I was just reading that it has been almost twenty years since we've had any true "global warming". Looks like the glacial period that we are overdue for may be beginning.
I'm expecting another cold winter; making it the third in a row. Also looking at a more robust vehicle to get through it, last year was brutal.
